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Chicago examiner vol vii no b a m wednesday december 30 1908 prirf onf tfnt delivered hy carrier former employes of morris & co get u s jobs for spying credit man discharged from 6,000 position is serv ing subpoenas six others gjven berths thoroughness of the inside work shown by knowledge of secret records discovery was made yester day that at least seven former * employes of morris & co have been given federal appointments as re wards for furnishing the government with the groundwork of the evidence m the current prosecution of the beef albert martin former credit man for the stock yards corporation was cpenly serving subpoenas yesterday as an assistant united states marshal and has been placed on the govern ment payroll at a salary of 1,800 a year martin is credited with having start ed ttifi prosecution he was discharged on april 10 from his position where he enjoyed a salary of 6,000 a year and sought out district attorney sims shortly afterward and imparted to him iwhat he knew of the inner workings the trust iken to see bonaparte sims at once went to washington with irtin where they laid the matter before torney general bonaparte who is said have consulted with president roose it before he ordered sims to go ahead hen the final instructions came a system espionage was initiated rivalling any the history of the government's trust tins culeer martin procured the collaboration of sev eral men who remained in the employ of morris & co and who were friendly to m these men were offered pay from Â» contingent fund for secret lnvestlga n and they continued to work for mor & co and spy for the government t is believed that secret service men re also assigned to get employment in rris & co.'s offices rhe government planned to keep secret investigation for at least another month d when the matter was suddenly made blic morris & co at once instituted n investigation and discovered who the men were that had turned informers they were discharged forthwith subpoenas tell the story iw^i men were taken under sims wing an jrnished from his special fund of is,o a year with means of living two of them have subsequently been given ii the marshal's office their c kennedy and donaghue the re taken care of m other parts dcral building c that the government had in rmation which could have corns i men m the confidence of morris ving access to<he private books ed m the subpoenas duces tecum re served on traffic superintend ing who is still holding the stanc c grand jury and others yet t n who will testify next is george y traveling auditor for morris & personal representative of ed irris m other corporations the 3 for both dowllng and dougherty lists of papers and books that called upon to bring page num deslgnated which could have been only in morris & co.'s office lumbers are used ib envelopes of claim records are by a numeral system employed 3 & co only each railroad keeps of its claims by its own numbers numbers by which the documents slgnated in the subpoenas were co.'s private numbers which are owhere outside the morris office has been Ã¼biquitous about the building ever since the investiga me a matter of public knowledge now learned that he was almost int a visitor m the earlier days of t â– who questioned the government ep as to martin's part in the mat ers were refused it was at first believed that he had been sub as a witness it was only when of his appointment became known real part m the matter was seen eal work to do ndcd the secrecy and yesterday ii the former credit man of morris as given a batch of subpoenas to his former fellow workers m the d m the downtown offices ict that his testimony is not the wledge which came to sims from r offices of the corporation under urne out by the fact that uinuy of rs mcutioned m the duces tecum is are records of matters later ril 10 when martin left jtorris & fact the papers run to transactions as ten days ago and some of the under investigation have not yet id dditional railroads are now known mrs franklin macveagh is defendant in suit by bandmaster for 50 laura dainty pelham the other de fendant says louis lipski's suit is a bluff mrs franklin macveagh wife of the wholesale grocer was made joint defend ant with miss laura dainty pelham of the dainty amusement company 143 dearborn street m a suit for 50 brought m the municipal court yesterday by a bandmas ter louis lipskl is the musician's name he has offices m the ogden building and he says m his bill that he never received pay for furnishing an orchestra to play at an entertainment given by mrs macveagh on the evening of december 31 1907 at her home 103 lake shore drive i am very much mortified to learn that mrs macveagh has been brought into the suit said miss pelham laÃŸt night she knows nothing whatever about it and i de sire to announce that this is my affair en tirely a little more than a year ago mrs macveagh commissioned me to provide an orchestra for an entertainment she was going to give 1 sent for lipski but when i showed him the programme i had pre pared i found that his orchestra could not play it " this will never do i said 1 can't use you " you'll have to he replied but i didn't i got paul schoeffling's orchestra to fill the engagement and lipski never went near the macveagh home if mrs macveagh has heard of the suit at all she would not have the slightest idea what it was about i wouldn't for any thing have the name of one of my patrons involved in this manner and i think lip ski has done it for a bluff l guess that's what you call it isn't it mrs macveagh declined last night to discuss the suit Taft in ananias club on theater record says he saw only uncle tom but he saw an opera cincinnati 0 dec 29.-has presi dent-elect Taft joined the ananias club this was the question cincinnati asked itself to-day after reading the morning newspapers a dispatch from atlanta told of an invitation extended to mr Taft to accept a box at a theater in that city on new year's eve and how mr Taft declined m a telegram reading thanks have at tended only one theatrical performance m tweuty years then i went to see tom's cabin " the fact remains however that tnft witnessed a comic opera at the grand opera house here m november he did not stay for the entire performance and gome of his friends charitably explain that he probably mistook what he saw of the show for uncle tom's cabin abe ruef sentenced to 14 years in prison san francisco dec 29 abraham ruef a former political leader convicted of offering a bribe of 4,000 to former supervisor john j furey m the overhead trolley franchise matter was sentenced to fourteen years imprisonment in san quen tin this afternoon the legal limits ruef accepted his punishment without a tremor when called upon to stand up and receive his sentence he did so with alacrity after sentence dosler served notice of an appeal and asked for a stay of execu tion until the defendant could prepare a bill of exceptions but withdrew his mo tion after signing a certificate of probable cause which m law provides the same thing fractures skull in explaining mistake an apology for getting into the wrong flat may cost frank brennan's life bren nan is a real estate dealer with offices at 6210 halsted street and lives at 0224 hal sted last evening he climbed to the third flight of 0220 halsted street and rang thinking he was at his own flat he dis covered his mistake when nathan foster opened the door i beg your pardon said brennan backing away i thought this was my " the sentence was not finished as bren nan had pitched backward down the stairs he was picked up unconscious and was taken to the englewood union hospital his skull is fractured and his death is expected spreckels oldest sons will fight for fortune sax francisco dec 29.-with the filing to-day of the will of the late clans spreekels m which his oldest sons john d and adolph receive no share of the vast estate there was precipitated what probably will be a fierce contest to break the testament the will declares john and adolph were sufficiently cared for during their father's lifetime and gives the estate to the widow anna christina spreckeu for life and then is to go her three chil dren claus a spreekels kudolph and mrs john ferris of kingwood england the estate is estimated to he worth at least 10,000,000 mrs nick longworth felled by fast team washington dec 28 mrs alice koosevelt i<oiigworth narrowly escaped death to-day iv front of the new national theater while crossing the street a two horse brougham at top speed knocked her from her feet and but for the quick action of a policeman she would have been thrown to the ground and probably fatally injured isave for shock mrs lougworth was un hurt gould's mother-in-law lost robbed of gems new york dec 29 â€” it became known to night that mrs helen m kelly mother-in law of irani j gould was lost m the wilds of brooklyn last week ami was aft erward robbed of jewels valued tit ij,oou by an engaging stranger who offered his serviie to her when her cab horse fell dead on l<"ifth aveuue demand voice in waterway law association of commerce and sanitary board serve warn ing on gov deneen executivt kept in city postpones departure till after noon to consult with their representatives as a result of governor deneen's con ference of monday regarding the construc tion of the 20,000,000 deep waterway from loekport to utica Chicago organizations yesterday took the matter under considera tion and formulated demands to be in corporated m the proposed law in view of the flurry created by the pri vate character of the conference the gov ernor did not leave Chicago yesterday fore noon as he had expected to do but re mained to hear suggestions ffom interested bodies a committee of trustees of the sanitary district made formal demand that they be given a hearing before the final draft of the proposed law is accepted that the peo ple of Chicago shall be safeguarded m their rights to the sanitary canal water power which they have expended 50,000 000 to create a delegation of officers from the Chicago association of commerce informed the governor that that body will oppose any attempt to make the construction of the canal a one-man affair or involve it with partisan politics they demanded that the proposed waterways commission either be elected by the people or that a nonpar i-i san board be selected by the legislature itself civic body asks hearing the Chicago civic association sent word to the governor that a hearing is demand ed for representatives of that body before final actiou is taken being informed that officers of the com merce association felt that they had been ignored m the conference of monday gov ernor deneeu yesterday morning sent an invitation to members of the organization to confer with him at the union league club he spent the entire forenoon iv consultation with president isham ran dolph of the internal improvement com mission and attorney john i wilson who is drawing the bill that will be em bodied m the governor's message im mediately after luncheon he received pres ident richard c hall secretary william a gibson and chairman e s conway of the commercial association committee on deep waterways in view of the fact that this associa tion has been the most active of any ill promoting the waterway plau said mr hall we feel that we should be heard we have asked the governor to hear our recommendations regarding the appoint ment of the proposed commission that will have the expending of the money and he i>as promised to do so a similar promise was obtained by henry f eidmann walter clark and taomas j healy who presented the demands of toe sanitary district position of sanitary board 1 we want to be assured that the rights i of the people of Chicago iv the water i power will be preserved iv any plan that i may lie adopted said mr kidmaun we | also demand the right which we asked l in the last legislature namely to extend lour channel three miles furtner or \ through the city of joliet we ask that the dam of the lvonouiy j light and power company m the ije plniues river at joiiet be torn out n cause the increased volume of water from our canal makes it dangerous to the city and if a brink should occur we would be at least morally responsible we will make any necessary tight to se cure these concessions and will insist that our right to all power to the end of he | new channel be recognized we do uot propose to turn over to legislators from down the stale rights that the people f Chicago have paid for and which shouid , be utilized in giving cheap light and power to the city engulfing of messina described by survivors thundering roar of tidal wave m semi-darkness . followed by fire turning inhabitants into maniacs rome dec 29 â€” an officer who was aboard the torpedo boat sappho at messina at the time of the earthquake and the tidal wave that fol lowed gives a remarkable des cription of the catastrophe it is one of the first-authentic stories of the dis aster he says about 5 o'clock m the morning the sea 1 began to be violently troubled soon afterward it seemed suddenly to swell and rise and a great wall of water hurled itself upon the city im mediately after the surface of the wa ter seemed to be covered with debris and corpses the suspense was terri ble i knew that some awful calamity had come upon us but if was not un til the sun rose that 1 could get even an idea f its extent as soou as it was light i peered toward the city but saw no city there it practically had disappeared as if crushed down and swept away by some gigantic force nothing was visible save the mass of ruins among which stood the walls of the hotel triniacra soon after all the other hotels and buildings had been shaken to the ground and then engulfed the clamor that arose was frightful there was a continuous chorus of shrieks and lamentations and i could see people here and there running sbjout m a panic of terror then fires began to break out with a swiftness that was almost magic in many different parts of the city at the same time the flames roared high and spread rapidly soon ther ewas a pall of smoke torn by violent guscs of wind and pierced by great banners j flames :.-.'.-.,â€¢';," .. ; ... â€¢â€¢â€¢ it is impossible to describe the titanic grandeur of the scene with shooting of broker hidden in mystery the michael reese hospital at twen ty-ninth street and groveland avenue con tains a mystery h a little before noon on monday nahum hoxteiy a well-known stock yards broker was brought there with a bullet wound in the head xo information as to how the wound was inflated cou'.d be obtained no niention of it was made upuu the rec ords of the hospital and for nearly thirty six hours the police were m ignorance of the fact that mr fester had been shot â– all that is known is that the shooting occurred some time between the hours ot t:yo and 10 o'clock monday morning at the hester home 4&kj vliuenues aveuue evidently it happened after mr hester bad dressed to go to his office for he was fully clothed when he was brought.to the hospital when the ambulance called : for him m response to a telephone call from dr l a greeiisfelden of michigan avenue they found mr hester lying on his bed unconscious the bullet entered over the right eye and took an upward course so far as could lw learned there was no one m the house at the time of the shooting except mr hester and one servant a maiil called louise at the hospital the patient was hurried | into a private ward and merely entered m the books as one of dr ireensfeldeu private raises mrs hester is in new york on a visit and her brother moses x tileenw.ikfc also a broker with offh-es m the txchauge huiidlug was in charge of tin house last evening mr hester is shot bat that's a!i i am poing to say exclaimed green wald deh autl.i â€¢! don't want auything in the pa j per about it was be shot accidentally or did he at tempt to comm|t kuicidey â€¢ â€¢-- i tell yon 1 won't say any tiling about it this is a little family affair and i won't tell you anything no one is going to find out how he was shot why was the case not reported to the pollccv the man isn't dead and we-dou't have to report it hiis mrs hester been informed of her husband's condition i've said all i'n going to say dr fiieensfeldeu was equally uncom municative the operation was performed about u o'clock m the afternoon and did not result m the extinction of the bullet , another operation will be performed in a day or two in spite of the fact that mr hester has a bullet m his head is - nmconitcjous and has only the recuperative powers of a 1 man of fifty-live years the hospital au thorities insist that he is getting along i nicely and is uot dangerously wounded â€¢ quake death list now 100,000 big city is swallowed up by sea king victor emmanuel on scene of a former earthquake a tower photographed during one of the past catastrophes and scenes m the ruined city of messina ninety-foot wave hits shaken towns only five inhabitants of reggio accounted for and warship fails to find trace of city messina a complete ruin tourists die in hotels king and queen hasten to sicily and pope organizes an international relief com mittee gives 200,000 messina straits choked change m geography by up heaval may lengthen trip from europe to asia and africa by fully 24 hours special cable to the examiner rome dec 30 2 a m while it is still impos . sible to calculate the full extent of the earthquake disaster m southern italy it is certain that the catastrophe is one of the greatest m history â€” perhaps the greatest of modern tinies from the latest advices and compila tions the following terrible figures a d facts give some idea of the monstrous tragedy : total number of sicilian dead including messina 70,000 total number of cala brians dead 30,000 grand total 100,000 exact figures unobtainable in detail the death list m mes sina ranges from 12,000 to 50,000 that of reggio with its adjacent villages numbering 45,000 peo ple includes almost the entire population at palmi 1,000 are r ported dead at cassano 1,000 at cozenza 500 and half of the population of bagnara about i cco the monteleone region has been devastated and riposto seminara san giovanni scylla gazzaro and cannitello and all other communes and villages bordering on the strait of mes sina are m ruins no exact report of the number of dead is obtainable up to this hour and m fact it may never be obtained as many bodies have been totally destroyed m the ruins messina and reggio are utterly destroyed messina had a population of 150,000 tidal wave swallows thousands their annihilation was due less to the earthquake than to the tidal wave which followed it swallowing up thousands of human beings before they had a chance to escape two other cala brian towns bagnara and palmi were also destroyed and it is feared that many foreign tourists have perished it appears certain that the ninety english and forty german guests at the hotel trini acria m messina lost their lives reggio disappears entirely th ominous absence of details con cernilg reeeio dj ca.la.brla uroves i j n am/css j cmyÂ£z continued on 4th page d cqlumn continued on 2d page 6th column h h || weather forecast m jreft Chicago and vicinity rain r''jf or snow and colder wednesday j v*s fresh to brisk southwest shifting to ]/* v northwest winds thursday fair jj jwi and colder wjjj the lost is found is the constant cry of patrons of the examiner's lost and round column â€¢ u r â€” ' hâ€”sj ss sj r^>â€”mÂ«gÂ«p . do you worry m about your business better sell ) l s out than to do that air exam n ' iner business chance ad will y find a quick buyer l/lt phone randolph 2500 vsfc

Chicago examiner vol vii no b a m wednesday december 30 1908 prirf onf tfnt delivered hy carrier former employes of morris & co get u s jobs for spying credit man discharged from 6,000 position is serv ing subpoenas six others gjven berths thoroughness of the inside work shown by knowledge of secret records discovery was made yester day that at least seven former * employes of morris & co have been given federal appointments as re wards for furnishing the government with the groundwork of the evidence m the current prosecution of the beef albert martin former credit man for the stock yards corporation was cpenly serving subpoenas yesterday as an assistant united states marshal and has been placed on the govern ment payroll at a salary of 1,800 a year martin is credited with having start ed ttifi prosecution he was discharged on april 10 from his position where he enjoyed a salary of 6,000 a year and sought out district attorney sims shortly afterward and imparted to him iwhat he knew of the inner workings the trust iken to see bonaparte sims at once went to washington with irtin where they laid the matter before torney general bonaparte who is said have consulted with president roose it before he ordered sims to go ahead hen the final instructions came a system espionage was initiated rivalling any the history of the government's trust tins culeer martin procured the collaboration of sev eral men who remained in the employ of morris & co and who were friendly to m these men were offered pay from Â» contingent fund for secret lnvestlga n and they continued to work for mor & co and spy for the government t is believed that secret service men re also assigned to get employment in rris & co.'s offices rhe government planned to keep secret investigation for at least another month d when the matter was suddenly made blic morris & co at once instituted n investigation and discovered who the men were that had turned informers they were discharged forthwith subpoenas tell the story iw^i men were taken under sims wing an jrnished from his special fund of is,o a year with means of living two of them have subsequently been given ii the marshal's office their c kennedy and donaghue the re taken care of m other parts dcral building c that the government had in rmation which could have corns i men m the confidence of morris ving access toas promised to do so a similar promise was obtained by henry f eidmann walter clark and taomas j healy who presented the demands of toe sanitary district position of sanitary board 1 we want to be assured that the rights i of the people of Chicago iv the water i power will be preserved iv any plan that i may lie adopted said mr kidmaun we | also demand the right which we asked l in the last legislature namely to extend lour channel three miles furtner or \ through the city of joliet we ask that the dam of the lvonouiy j light and power company m the ije plniues river at joiiet be torn out n cause the increased volume of water from our canal makes it dangerous to the city and if a brink should occur we would be at least morally responsible we will make any necessary tight to se cure these concessions and will insist that our right to all power to the end of he | new channel be recognized we do uot propose to turn over to legislators from down the stale rights that the people f Chicago have paid for and which shouid , be utilized in giving cheap light and power to the city engulfing of messina described by survivors thundering roar of tidal wave m semi-darkness . followed by fire turning inhabitants into maniacs rome dec 29 â€” an officer who was aboard the torpedo boat sappho at messina at the time of the earthquake and the tidal wave that fol lowed gives a remarkable des cription of the catastrophe it is one of the first-authentic stories of the dis aster he says about 5 o'clock m the morning the sea 1 began to be violently troubled soon afterward it seemed suddenly to swell and rise and a great wall of water hurled itself upon the city im mediately after the surface of the wa ter seemed to be covered with debris and corpses the suspense was terri ble i knew that some awful calamity had come upon us but if was not un til the sun rose that 1 could get even an idea f its extent as soou as it was light i peered toward the city but saw no city there it practically had disappeared as if crushed down and swept away by some gigantic force nothing was visible save the mass of ruins among which stood the walls of the hotel triniacra soon after all the other hotels and buildings had been shaken to the ground and then engulfed the clamor that arose was frightful there was a continuous chorus of shrieks and lamentations and i could see people here and there running sbjout m a panic of terror then fires began to break out with a swiftness that was almost magic in many different parts of the city at the same time the flames roared high and spread rapidly soon ther ewas a pall of smoke torn by violent guscs of wind and pierced by great banners j flames :.-.'.-.,â€¢';," .. ; ... â€¢â€¢â€¢ it is impossible to describe the titanic grandeur of the scene with shooting of broker hidden in mystery the michael reese hospital at twen ty-ninth street and groveland avenue con tains a mystery h a little before noon on monday nahum hoxteiy a well-known stock yards broker was brought there with a bullet wound in the head xo information as to how the wound was inflated cou'.d be obtained no niention of it was made upuu the rec ords of the hospital and for nearly thirty six hours the police were m ignorance of the fact that mr fester had been shot â– all that is known is that the shooting occurred some time between the hours ot t:yo and 10 o'clock monday morning at the hester home 4&kj vliuenues aveuue evidently it happened after mr hester bad dressed to go to his office for he was fully clothed when he was brought.to the hospital when the ambulance called : for him m response to a telephone call from dr l a greeiisfelden of michigan avenue they found mr hester lying on his bed unconscious the bullet entered over the right eye and took an upward course so far as could lw learned there was no one m the house at the time of the shooting except mr hester and one servant a maiil called louise at the hospital the patient was hurried | into a private ward and merely entered m the books as one of dr ireensfeldeu private raises mrs hester is in new york on a visit and her brother moses x tileenw.ikfc also a broker with offh-es m the txchauge huiidlug was in charge of tin house last evening mr hester is shot bat that's a!i i am poing to say exclaimed green wald deh autl.i â€¢! don't want auything in the pa j per about it was be shot accidentally or did he at tempt to comm|t kuicidey â€¢ â€¢-- i tell yon 1 won't say any tiling about it this is a little family affair and i won't tell you anything no one is going to find out how he was shot why was the case not reported to the pollccv the man isn't dead and we-dou't have to report it hiis mrs hester been informed of her husband's condition i've said all i'n going to say dr fiieensfeldeu was equally uncom municative the operation was performed about u o'clock m the afternoon and did not result m the extinction of the bullet , another operation will be performed in a day or two in spite of the fact that mr hester has a bullet m his head is - nmconitcjous and has only the recuperative powers of a 1 man of fifty-live years the hospital au thorities insist that he is getting along i nicely and is uot dangerously wounded â€¢ quake death list now 100,000 big city is swallowed up by sea king victor emmanuel on scene of a former earthquake a tower photographed during one of the past catastrophes and scenes m the ruined city of messina ninety-foot wave hits shaken towns only five inhabitants of reggio accounted for and warship fails to find trace of city messina a complete ruin tourists die in hotels king and queen hasten to sicily and pope organizes an international relief com mittee gives 200,000 messina straits choked change m geography by up heaval may lengthen trip from europe to asia and africa by fully 24 hours special cable to the examiner rome dec 30 2 a m while it is still impos . sible to calculate the full extent of the earthquake disaster m southern italy it is certain that the catastrophe is one of the greatest m history â€” perhaps the greatest of modern tinies from the latest advices and compila tions the following terrible figures a d facts give some idea of the monstrous tragedy : total number of sicilian dead including messina 70,000 total number of cala brians dead 30,000 grand total 100,000 exact figures unobtainable in detail the death list m mes sina ranges from 12,000 to 50,000 that of reggio with its adjacent villages numbering 45,000 peo ple includes almost the entire population at palmi 1,000 are r ported dead at cassano 1,000 at cozenza 500 and half of the population of bagnara about i cco the monteleone region has been devastated and riposto seminara san giovanni scylla gazzaro and cannitello and all other communes and villages bordering on the strait of mes sina are m ruins no exact report of the number of dead is obtainable up to this hour and m fact it may never be obtained as many bodies have been totally destroyed m the ruins messina and reggio are utterly destroyed messina had a population of 150,000 tidal wave swallows thousands their annihilation was due less to the earthquake than to the tidal wave which followed it swallowing up thousands of human beings before they had a chance to escape two other cala brian towns bagnara and palmi were also destroyed and it is feared that many foreign tourists have perished it appears certain that the ninety english and forty german guests at the hotel trini acria m messina lost their lives reggio disappears entirely th ominous absence of details con cernilg reeeio dj ca.la.brla uroves i j n am/css j cmyÂ£z continued on 4th page d cqlumn continued on 2d page 6th column h h || weather forecast m jreft Chicago and vicinity rain r''jf or snow and colder wednesday j v*s fresh to brisk southwest shifting to ]/* v northwest winds thursday fair jj jwi and colder wjjj the lost is found is the constant cry of patrons of the examiner's lost and round column â€¢ u r â€” ' hâ€”sj ss sj r^>â€”mÂ«gÂ«p . do you worry m about your business better sell ) l s out than to do that air exam n ' iner business chance ad will y find a quick buyer l/lt phone randolph 2500 vsfc